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Replication files for:

Berlinguer I Love You (Still): the Downstream Effects of Expressive Voting
Political Behavior, October 2025

Riccardo Di Leo
Elias Dinas
Biljana Meiske

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This data release contains the following files:

1. Datasets used in the analysis: 

	a. "Elezioni_final_09_2025.dta": municipal-level electoral data coming from Archivio Storico Elezioni (Eligendo)
	b. "itanes_1975_final.dta": respondent-level survey data collected by ITANES in 1975 (see: www.itanes.it)
	c. "itanes_1985_final.dta": respondent-level survey data collected by ITANES in 1985 (see: www.itanes.it)
	d. "Candidates_Preferences_1979_1984.dta": candidate-level data on preferences in the 1979 and 1984 EP elections coming from Archivio Storico Elezioni (Eligendo)



2. Code to replicate the analysis (do-files Stata)
File names: 

	a. "2_Main_replication" is the Stata do-file to be used when replicating the figures contained in the main body of the paper.

	b. "3_Appendix_replication" is the Stata do-file to be used when replicating the tables and figures contained in the supplementary information.

	c. "4_ITANES_replication" is the Stata do-file complementing (a) and (b) when using ITANES data

	d. "5_Candidates_replication" is the Stata do-file complementing (a) and (b) when using Candidates' preferences data


3. Extra figures: x2 maps, x2 newspaper titles, timeline of events, fac-simile of the ballot, x2 fac-simile of the list of candidates in Centrale in 1984 (all located in the folder "Figures Extra")


Other information for replication:

OS: Windows Windows 11 Pro 24H2

Software: Stata/SE v18.0 for Windows; 
	packages to install: 
	"ebalance" "center" "estout" "grstyle" "coefplot" "rddsga" "kountry" "iscogen" "rangestat" "rangejoin" "nearmrg" "palettes" "colrspace"


Not available on ssc, but necessary to run the code: 
	
	net install rdrobust, from(https://raw.githubusercontent.com/rdpackages/rdrobust/master/stata) replace


ado files to include in the Stata "ado" directory: 	"DCdensity.ado" "rddisttestk.ado"  	

(typically following a path "ado/plus/initial of the package", use command "sysdir" to identify it. Note that Stata must be restarted to incorporate the files change)	

	a. "DCdensity.ado" used to compute the density test (also available here: https://eml.berkeley.edu/~jmccrary/DCdensity/) 
		Developed by Justin McCrary. 
		See: McCrary, Justin. "Manipulation of the running variable in the regression discontinuity design: A density test." Journal of econometrics 142.2 (2008): 698-714.

	b. "rddisttestk.ado" used to compute the density test (also available here: https://economics.byu.edu/frandsen/Pages/Software.aspx) 
		Developed by Brigham R. Fradsen.